Biography of Isaaci Etidloie
ISAACI ETIDLOIE
Born: November 15, 1972 Male
Resided: Cape Dorset
Sculpture
Died: 2014
Isaac Etidloie was born on November 15, 1972. He comes from a family of well-known artists from cape Dorset, the most art productive community on Baffin Island, Nunavut.
Isaac is the son of cape Dorset carver Etulu Etidlui known primarily, for his lovely loons mounted on either stone, or a piece of caribou antler, and the grandson of renowned graphic artists Etidlooie and Kingmeata Etidlooie. His uncle Kelly is also a talented sculptor, mostly known for his lively carvings of narwhals.
Picking up his first set of hand tools at a young age, his earliest subject matter was filled with figures engaged in the daily practices of nomadic Inuit life. Isaac is a very gifted young artist with a tremendous amount of potential. Like his father, Isaci likes to carve birds, but he is equally interested in portraying human figure and mythological imagery, and that is where his great technical control in depicting the movement and proportions is best represented.
Isaac takes great care in choosing the stone. His carvings are made of finest serpentine of varying green shades with gold veining, smoothed and polished to best exhibit the beauty of the stone. Serpentine is a metamorphic rock found on Baffin Island. It is a yery hard stone with a composition similar to Jade.
ISACCI ETIDLOIE (ISSACIE; ETIDLOUIE; ETIDLUI; ISSAACI)
Date of Birth: November 15, 1972 Male/Female: Male
Place of Birth: Cape Dorset
Mother: Letia Parr Etidloie
Father: Etulu Etidlui
Isacci is the son of Cape Dorset carver, Etulu Etidlui, and the grandson of renowned graphic artists, Etidlooie and Kingmeata Etidlooie.
He has been carving since he was 7 years old and his favourite subjects are drum dancers.
EXHIBITIONS:
November – December 1991 Second Generation Cape Dorset Carvers
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
November – December 1991 The Hand; Images in Inuit Sculpture
The Issacs/Innuit Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
November – December 1993 Sculpture Inuit et Retrospective Pudlo Pudlat
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
November – December 1993 The Treasured Monument
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
April – May 1994 Mythic Image
Ancestral Spirits Gallery
Port Townsend, Washington, U.S.A.
September – October 1994 Kunst van der Inuit Eskimo’s
Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum
Huis Hellemans
Edegem, Belgium
(illustrated brochure)
September 1995 Sedna: Spirit of the Sea
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
September – October 1995 Two Eccentrics: Sculpture by Emily Illuitok of Pelly bay and Isacci Etidlooie of Cape Dorset
The Issacs/Innuit Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
November – December 1995 Miniaturen
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
(brochure)
November 1996 Emerging Spirit
Banff Centre
Organized by Northern Art Impressions Inc.
Banff, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)
February – April 1997 Stone & Bone
The Inuit Master Carvers of the Canadian Arctic
The North West Company
Held at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities
Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.A.
November 1998 Sculpture from the Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
October – November 1999 Isaci Etidlooie: Facing Dorset
Exhibition by John Reeves (photographer)
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
November – December 2000 Small Sculptures by Great Artists V
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
May – June 2001 Baffin Island Sculpture
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
August – September 2001 Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts
Houston North Gallery
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
October – December 2002 Polar Bears: An Exhibition of Inuit Sculpture
(Online exhibition)
Galerie Inuit Plus
Timmins, Ontario
2005 Inuit Sculpture Now
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Spring 2005 Cape Dorset Sculpture
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Summer 2005 Emerging Talent: New Work by Young Arctic Artists
Home and Away Gallery
Kennebunkport, Maine, U.S.A.
September – November 2005 Selections from the Lowell Schoenfeld
And Josephine Mitchell Collection of Inuit Sculpture
Carleton University Art Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario
November 2005 Unique Visions
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
December 2006 Art Forms ‘06
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
October 2007 Masterworks VI
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
October 2007 Inuit Sculpture Now
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
October 2008 Shaman, Sedna and Spirits
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, BC
(illustrated catalogue)
October 2008 Transfigurations
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, BC
November 2008 Small Sculptures by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
December 2008 Mini Masterworks 2
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, BC
(illustrated catalogue)
January, 2008 Masterworks VI
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
January – February, 2009 Small Treasures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
Summer 2009 Summer Celebration
Images of the North
San Francisco
October – November, 2009 Mini Masterworks 3
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
November – December, 2009 New Views on Old Traditions
The Guild Shop
Toronto, Ontario
December, 2009 Small Sculptures by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
March – April, 2010 Vancouver Olympic Exhibition
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
October, 2010 Arctic Wind III: An Expression of Survival
Coastal Peoples Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated brochure)
October, 2010 Dancing, Drumming, Singing
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
January – February, 2011 Small Treasures 2011
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
March – April, 2011 Mini Masterworks IV
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
April 2011 Continuum
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
October, 2011 Stone and Paper
Cape Dorset 2011
Native Art Gallery
Oakville, ON
(illustrated catalogue)
March – April, 2012 Mini Masterworks IV
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, BC
(illustrated Catalogue)
May – June, 2012 The Unexpected
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
December, 2012 – March, 2013 Telling Stories:
Inuit Art from Cape Dorset
Toronto Pearson Airport: Terminal 1
Toronto, Ontario
September – October, 2015 Mini Masterworks VI
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
November 2015 – January 2016 Small Sculptures by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto Ontario
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
October 2009 Isaaci Etidloie
Let’s Play!
Inuit gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
COLLECTIONS:
Musee d’art Inuit Brousseau, Quebec City, Quebec
Art Gallery of Ontario
SELECTED REFERENCES:
Marion Scott Gallery
THE TREASURED MONUMENT: An Exhibition of Small-scale Inuit Sculpture.
Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 1993.
